МОТИВ ВAМПИРA У КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ
THE VAMPIRE MOTIVE IN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this paper is a complex thematical motive of vampire in the Serbian and world literature. The goal of the paper is to present the origin and development of the motive in literature during the two centuries of its existence — from the first stories of horror and fantasy with the motive of vampire at the beginning of the 19th century, till the form of the motive in contemporary texts. The emphasis is on the aspects of the motive which have been studied less in our science of literature so far, like the eroticism of vampires, unusual chthonotopic features related to their appearance, idelogical interpretations of the character of a vampire and so on. The paper also investigates the genre assumptions of the motive, that is its position in the literature of horrior and fantasy, undeniable metaphorical potential of the motive, as well as the attitude of writers to mythical matrices and freedom in their use.

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